Auli’i Cravalho & Adam Lambert Set To Make Broadway Debuts As ‘Cabaret’ Leads

Erik Pedersen
·2 min read

The Kit-Kat Club is getting some new blood.

Queen singer and American Idol alum Adam Lambert and Moana and The Power star Auli’i Cravalho will step in the respective roles of Emcee and Sally Bowles in Broadway’s Cabaret revival on September 16. Their limited engagement runs through March 30.

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Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin will give their final performances as Emcee and Bowles in the Tony-nominated Kander-and-Ebb musical two night earlier.

“Growing up on the musical theater stage, it was always a childhood dream to perform on Broadway,” Lambert said in a statement. “With this production of Cabaret, it finally felt like the right time to accept an invitation to make my debut. The themes of this show have always resonated with me and given the current sociopolitical climate the world is in, feel eerily timely.”

Added Cravalho in a statement: “I’m thrilled to join the long line of talented women who have taken on the iconic Sally Bowles,’ most recently, the woman I watched with notebook and pen in hand, the dynamite Gayle Rankin. To join a show with so much history—and such a stellar cast and crew—means it’s quite literally an honor to get my butt kicked each week.”

Officially titled Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club, the show moved to Broadway in April from London’s West End, where it dominated the 2022 Olivier Awards. It went on to score nine Tony nominations including Best Revival of a Musical, later winning for Tom Scutt’s scenic design.

The current Cabaret cast also includes Bebe Neuwirth, Ato Blankson-Wood, Steven Skybell, Henry Gottfried and Natascia Diaz.

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